Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

A film-ballet featuring performers from the Kyrgyz State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. It is based on a national legend about faithful and all‑conquering love. The story follows a beautiful young maiden named Cholpon, who has the misfortune of crossing paths with Ai‑Dai, an evil vampire. Ai‑Dai drinks Cholpon’s blood and takes over her body. Now controlling the girl’s form, Ai‑Dai enters the palace, where she aims to win the affection of a handsome and unsuspecting prince.

A romantic story based on the Ural fairytales. The chiefs of two brotherly peoples living in the lands of the Southern Urals had a son - the rich man Altynduga and a daughter - the beautiful Ai. One day they met and fell in love with each other. Meanwhile, the ruler of the kingdom of evil, Katil-Badtsha, and the insidious sorceress Myasekai quarreled their peoples by cunning and deceit in order to rob and enslave them. So the lovers were separated.

On the patriotism of Ukrainian collective farmers. Tractor driver Andrei Stozhar decides to go to the Far East instead of his brother Maxim killed on the border.

The parable of a flock of sheep that defeated a pack of wolves.

Old man Khalnazar tells the orphan Toykuli about the kidnapped Gyulkahkas-peri, who brings joy to people. The boy decides to find Gylkahkas. The trials that befell him were shared by a girl he met named... Gyulkahkas. Only at the end of his wanderings Toykuli realized that his companion was the peri he was looking for, and only kindness and love could work miracles.

About the feelings and responsibilities of people, about the attitude towards life of the older and younger generations. About the conflict between Dmitry Nikolaevich, who lived in dreams and letters and respect for the woman he met, and Igor Mikhailovich, who used someone else’s name and took advantage of the situation, about a intricately intertwined love story...

Văleu, văleu, nu turna! It's a color film made in Moldova in 1991. It shows the intention of the Soviet Union's Communist Party to fight against alcoholism as a result of a murder in the summer of 1985.

Young girl is looking for the rare red agate which she believes will cure her grandfather.

Village man Hambo, trying to set up his son Gikor, gives him in service of well-to-do merchant Bazaz Artem. Gikor couldn't find neither cordiality, nor kindness in merchant's house and misses his home. Some envy small bailiff but nobody see his sufferings.

The soldier and the tracklayer Valya corresponded for more than a year. The girl said in her letters that she allegedly worked as a teacher and tried to “appropriate” qualities that she did not have, although in reality she was a sweet, good person. As a result, the soldier who came to Valya never recognized her, and Valya was ashamed to admit her deception...

The train goes to Moscow. In the same carriage with the railway workers who are going to the meeting, there is a Chinese writer collecting material for his future novel about the people of Soviet Kazakhstan. He discovers an old newspaper in his archive. The newspaper contains photos of the best drummers — builders of Turksib: Ospan, Hakim, Boris, Hadisha and others. They turn out to be the writer's neighbors on the car — yesterday's ordinary workers, builders, now the most prominent statesmen, heads of railways. At the request of the writer, Ospan tells a touching story of their life and love.

Adventure of Mr. Promise - the one who promises and never does...

Based on the fable written by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, animation tells a story of a cat and its student lion and why the cat did not teach lion how to climb .

Summer camp becomes a place for not only funny adventures, but also for a first feelings awakening for two fifteen years old teenagers.

A fisheries inspector is killed while on night duty in a small fishing village on the shores of the Azov Sea. The murder draws the attention of the authorities and local residents to the problems of protecting and restoring the endangered nature of the once-rich region.

Of the deminers combing the landscape, a young man walking without a detector finds himself on a mine. Since his companions cannot help him, the young man wants to dictate his goodbye letter to his wife.

A story about young years of Vladimir Lenin.

A girl with an alcoholic father struggles to fit in.

Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.

The new power stations are beating like hearts to the pulse of modernisation. At gigantic expense and effort, the Soviet Union is rapidly industrialised. The state plan foresees the construction of forty power-generation centres across the country. However, the people must first be enlightened about the nature and use of electrical current. Horses and tractors, households and industry, nature and the world of work, neon signs and the construction of power stations all depend on this miraculous new source of energy. The famous Soviet director Lev Kuleshov masterfully realises this project with documentary shots, acted scenes, and lots of creative trick sequences.

The production of a military play at a cultural center has gone wrong.

Short Soviet film: 'a memorial of the epoch.'

A large village high in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan has become almost deserted. Not only the three old men who are protecting the empty houses, but also the young guy, a demobilized soldier, aches for him. And why don’t people return to such wonderful places where life is cleaner and healthier than in cities?..

Experimental collection. It began with a synchronized movie recording of a speech by Anatoly Lunacharsky, former People's Commissar of Education and Director of the Research Institute of Literature and Art, on the importance of sound cinema. Then came an hour-long movie "Five-Year Plan" - a documentary essay about the first five-year plan. Then - a small cartoon with newsreel elements "Tip-Top", the hero of which was making a round-the-world trip. By genre it was a political satire. Then there were recordings of Sergei Prokofiev's march from the play "Love for Three Oranges" and other musical numbers performed by a choir, solo singers, symphony and jazz orchestras, as well as actors from Sergei Obraztsov's puppet theater.

A boy falls in love with the girl whose injuries he is responsible for...

How a small onion helped a cabbage out of trouble.

Based on the work of the same name by A. P. Chekhov about the fate of an old provincial actor.

An adaptation of Olga Frosh's novel about the life of Mihail Beideman.

The events in Mahallada duv-duv gap occur in a mahalla — a traditional Uzbek neighborhood — in an old part of Tashkent at a time when big-scale construction works are taking place. The movie humorously depicts the relationships between traditional parents and their modern children.

The boy does everything he can to help the little sand-drawn figures who have come to life escape the approaching waves.

The film tells the story of folk and pop songs from Bukovyna in the mid-1960s.

Co-villagers lead secretly into scrooge-type Elibo's wine-cellar, but good wine makes them to sing loudly and awaken Elibo joins to thieves feast.

Old school principal suddenly finds a love poem addressed to mysterious N.

The boy Niko and the bull Nikora are working in the field. After hard work, they rest, but are attacked by an evil and gluttonous troll.

One day the police were checking city blocks and found a dragon egg, which was immediately taken to the lost and found table. And there a five-headed dragon hatched from the egg and ate everything that was in the lost and found table for storage. Not knowing what to do with the charming monster, the police are trying to place him either in an orphanage or in an animal protection society. But everything is in vain, because in fact the dragon is an enchanted princess.

Cossacks cooked borscht, but ran out of salt, and what kind of taste without salt? They go to the fair, where they find out that the Chumaks who traded the salt, were robbed by the Evil Pan (local feudal lord). In this series, the Cossacks, fighting off the Evil Pan and his servants, try to bring the stolen salt to the bazaar in order to transfer it to the hands of the rightful owners - the Chumaks.

A movie novel about academician Kostromin, whose prototype was Ukrainian scientist V. I. Vernadsky (1863-1945).

Made up of footage of a protest manifestation of mothers whose children had been summoned to serve in Soviet military forces and sent to the zones of Transcaucasian conflicts.

A young and wealthy widow, Maritsa, is a tempting prize for fortune hunters in search of a rich bride. To scare off all the suitors once and for all, Maritsa randomly invents a fiancé’s name. But it turns out that a man with that exact name actually exists—and now he’s happily rushing to meet his “bride.”

A fairy tale about a wonderful ball that laughs merrily and gives adults and children a good mood, making them forget about problems and troubles.

Due to a very dry year, the khan ordered the entire young population to go in search of better places and leave the old people at home. All the old people were left to die and only one boy, risking his life, took his grandfather with him, hiding him in a large box. On the road, three times the wisdom of the old man helped everyone, and having learned that it was the old man who helped, the khan ordered his soldiers to take all the old men left behind with them...

The documentary observes athletes of one the most difficult yet interesting track and field sports – decathlon, the king of all sports, as they say. Slow-motion filming of competing athletes makes it possible to see the details that otherwise would be lost within the dizzy speed. Using the 1000mm lens adds a new unexpected angle while expressing the character of a decathlete, his ability to focus with all his will in order to win.

A stop-motion film based on the Grimm Brothers' folktale, "Town Musicians of Bremen".

The Stouts steal Athomic in order to use it to start a war.

The director of a metallurgical plant receives a task from the ministry: in a short period of time (from winter to winter) to master the production of a new grade of steel necessary for the construction of a gas pipeline in the Far North. The plant team, under the guidance of a professional, successfully solves technological problems and completes the task.

A fantastic show with chases and alien spies and famous Soviet pop artists.

It was Christmas time. Three friends - a newspaper reporter, a bass player, and a lawyer - were on their way to visit someone. After buying gifts, they rushed to the train station. However, there were no seats available in the first-class compartment. In the second-class compartment, they found a lady sitting alone. However, the lady refused to let them enter the compartment. The friends decided to play a prank on the lady and took her to the train station to find out if her belongings were in the compartment. As a result, they had to pay for the lady's carriage and were unable to catch up with the train. The lady, who had seemed scandalous at first, turned out to be very nice and invited them to her house for Christmas.

A Russian newsreel documenting the fifteenth anniversary of the Bolshevist revolution.

About life insurance and the cost of a wife.

These songs are born on long hikes, around campfires in moments of joy and sadness. Here, in the Leningrad club "Vostok", they take the stage for the first time. And is it possible to remain indifferent when the argument turns to the song?

The heroes of the film Hippo and Penguin, delighted with the performance of circus artists, decided to try themselves on stage too. But instead of fame and applause, they were waiting for failure, the indignant audience left the hall. However, soon the friends found their business in life.